Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in such dress As they are used to wear, and let the boys Bring flowers in last month's newspapers. Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal. Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet On which she embroidered fantails once And spread it so as to cover her face. If her horny feet protrude, they come To show how cold she is, and dumb. Let the lamp affix its beam. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Analysis
Wallace Stevens liked to write about how reality and our response to it was in constant flux.
This poem is really hard to analyze. A 41 year-old cop didn't know what it meant. I'll do my best.
Vocab
concupiscent-filled with sexual desire, lustful dawdle-waste time, be slow fantails-fan shaped tail or end
What Stevens is trying to say in this poem is that once you take the fun and greatness out of life it starts to suck...a lot. "Taking the dresser from his deal" means that if a dresser didn't get money for what they did or they didn't have fun making it, it wouldn't be worth the time. The girl in the poem is sad because all of the fun in her life has been taken out of her life. Stevens wanted to portray an emperor of ice-cream because ice-cream is so good there should be an "emperor" of it. The point of this poem is to enjoy what you have and have fun in your life.
I picked this poem because it involved ice-cream and there was an emperor of it and that would be awesome. Could you imagine someone ruling over ice-cream, that's awesome! It's also a pretty good poem that can look into your soul if you would let it inside. I would let a poem inside my soul, It could rent an apartment in there for about $15 a month.
This poem is written in 2 stanzas. There are no rhyming couplets, triplets, etc., it doesn't rhyme anywhere in the poem. That's all I know.
"The Emperor of Ice-Cream"
Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal.
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Analysis
Wallace Stevens liked to write about how reality and our response to it was in constant flux.
This poem is really hard to analyze.
A 41 year-old cop didn't know what it meant.
I'll do my best.
Vocab
concupiscent-filled with sexual desire, lustfuldawdle-waste time, be slow
fantails-fan shaped tail or end
What Stevens is trying to say in this poem is that once you take the fun and greatness out of life it starts to suck...a lot. "Taking the dresser from his deal" means that if a dresser didn't get money for what they did or they didn't have fun making it, it wouldn't be worth the time. The girl in the poem is sad because all of the fun in her life has been taken out of her life. Stevens wanted to portray an emperor of ice-cream because ice-cream is so good there should be an "emperor" of it. The point of this poem is to enjoy what you have and have fun in your life.
I picked this poem because it involved ice-cream and there was an emperor of it and that would be awesome. Could you imagine someone ruling over ice-cream, that's awesome! It's also a pretty good poem that can look into your soul if you would let it inside. I would let a poem inside my soul, It could rent an apartment in there for about $15 a month.
This poem is written in 2 stanzas. There are no rhyming couplets, triplets, etc., it doesn't rhyme anywhere in the poem. That's all I know.